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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I don't understand why taxes are such a huge boogeyman in Alberta.
If Peter Lougheed thought tax rates should increase, why is this idea treated like a communist conspiracy to take your money?
It is baffling to me.
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To me increased taxes isn't as much a boogey man as its become a platform of lazy government. Lets just raise taxes to pay for this stuff, and they keep pushing it up and up. Taxes are in their nature more harmful to the low and middle income then the high income earner, and the high income earner can fold up shop at any time and leave.
Why is it lazy government, because the government doesn't believe in monitored effective spending, they just throw money at the problem, and then keep throwing more at the problem.
If the government came out tomorrow and said we are way over staffed in management at xyz or we bought several thousand lap tops that we never used, so lets fix these problems and then if need be raised taxes, then fine.
Instead its the argument of wasteful spending solved by increased taxation that bugs me.
Look we know that people need to pay their share for services, nobody argues it, but if government programs were like cars. The government would basically build a 4 stroke engine car that gets 2 miles to the gallon, breaks down every 10 kms as ugly as sin and has no passenger or cargo seating and they'd sell it for a quarter million bucks and we'd have no choice but to buy it.
Governments have to be stronger guardians of the public purse, not merely agents that keep throwing coins into it.